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A French court has ordered the search engine Google to block access to photos of Max Mosley's sex scandal. Photo by LAT PHOTOGRAPHIC

The BBC reports that a French court has ordered Internet search-engine giant Google to remove all website links to photos depicting former FIA president Max Mosley engaged in the infamous 2008 prostitute sex scandal.

Google reportedly responded by saying the decision “should worry all those who defend freedom of expression on the Internet” and apparently plans to appeal the verdict.

Mosley, in 2008, won a lawsuit for breach of privacy against the News of the World newspaper, which secretly filmed him with five female prostitutes, and claimed that the encounter had a Nazi theme. However, a court decided that not only did the paper invade his privacy but also that there was no basis to the Nazi allegation. Mosley also won a case in France in 2011 against News of the World's owner, News Corp.

According to the BBC, Mosley had said Google agreed to remove links on a case-by-case basis, but refused his request to “reprogram its technology to ensure it did not show up at all in searches about him.”

Mosley reportedly said at one point, “As soon as a search engine finds [the photos and/or video, they are then] available to everybody and the thing you sued over and won over is republished again and again.